Bob CollinsIn upholding a district court ruling, the Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the state law doesn’t prevent a city from requiring a higher minimum wage. It only prohibits paying less. The case will almost certainly have to be settled by the Minnesota Supreme Court. Read more →
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Tag: Minimum Wage
If there’s one thing we learned after the big tax breaks for corporations, it’s that when big business sounds like it’s giving a big chunk of money to the little people, the big picture provides an entirely different story.
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Most of the players in minor league baseball, especially on teams in independent leagues such as the Saint Paul Saints, aren’t going anywhere.
But that’s not the way most of the public sees them, which is why there won’t be much notice today when/if Congress puts the screws to them by denying them minimum wage protections.
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Tim Hortons — the Canadian coffee shop — is now the face of the debate over a higher minimum wage now that the children of the founder have taken Ontario’s increase in the minimum wage out on employees. Read more →
Times should be good again soon for restaurants in St. Louis. Missouri is cutting the minium wage back to $7.70 again after St. Louis had hiked it to $10 two months ago and it was to go up another $1 in January. Read more →
Researchers at the University of Washington studied Seattle’s phased-in increases — first from $9.47 to $11 per hour in 2015 and to $13 per hour in 2016 — and found the second wage increased reduced work hours in low-wage jobs by 9 percent while wages increased only 3 percent.
They concluded that the reduction in hours cost the average employee $179 per month, while the wage increase added only $54. Read more →
Perhaps it figures that when a Republican and Democrat finally get together on bipartisan legislation in Congress, it intends to enrich fat cats and stiff people trying to make a living.
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The white-linen, polished silver restaurant that’s been in its Minneapolis location for 10 years, is calling it quits. Is Minnesota’s minimum wage increase to blame? Read more →
A year ago, Stillwater’s Oasis Cafe caused an online firestorm when it added a 35-cent ‘fee’ onto every bill to pay for the increase in the state’s minimum wage.
The minimum wage has gone up again, but this time the cafe has simply raised prices and gotten rid of the fee, the Pioneer Press reports. Read more →
Though it didn’t come up much in last fall’s campaign, the minimum wage issue is back at the Capitol in Saint Paul where a Republican lawmaker is carrying a restaurant-industry-written bill to trim the minimum wage increase for servers. Read more →
Kip Hedges was fired after giving an interview to Workday Minnesota in October. Hedges is a baggage handler at the airport.
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If you really love restaurant workers, you’ll start paying your tips in cash. Read more →
Restaurant bills have something to say about prayer and the minimum wage Read more →
The passage of a higher minimum wage bill has border businesses singing the blues. Read more →
There’s more indication today that the Minnesota legislative process isn’t quite running on all cylinders.
Today, Sen. Ann Rest and several House DFLers proposed that voters do the job they elected lawmakers to do: Decide on the record whether the state’s minimum wage should be raised and, if so, how?
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